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 The new FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard opens this weekend with The Elephant Room, a Fringe performance from last year. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

FringeArts Building allows ‘fringey’ spirit of festival to continue all year in Philly

This weekend, a new performance venue will open on the Philadelphia waterfront. The FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boule ...

13 years ago

 In her new novel, author Elizabeth Gilbert, known best for her memoir,

Historic Philadelphia mansion leaves imprint on Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Signature of All Things’

In Elizabeth GIlbert’s breakthrough, bestselling memoir, “Eat, Pray. Love,” she goes on a globetrotting journey seeking ...

13 years ago

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 Rachel Greenberger, 17, reads the part of Janet, from the play

After legendary high school drama director bows out, former student takes on role in Levittown

After 44 years of ground-breaking theater at the high school level, Lou Volpe retired in May. Volpe created a legendary drama prog ...

13 years ago

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 The Shepard Fairey wheatpaste on the Norris Street side of Rocket Cat Cafe went up in 2010 and is now covered with a brown tarp until owner Karen Breese decides how to revive the mural. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Drenched in graffiti, iconic artwork by Shepard Fairey now under cover in Fishtown

Something’s missing on the side of a building in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood. Drivers heading up Frankford Avenue no ...

13 years ago

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 Carlo Campbell (left) as one of
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ — tough love, anyone?

It’s a treat to see “The Brothers Size,” a stirring piece about two adult brothers who mostly get along by not getting ...

13 years ago

‘What We Sow’ dinner event transplanted to Center City due to U.S. shutdown

The Mural Arts Project has spent months planning a series of community engagement events, called “What We Sow,” that was supp ...

13 years ago

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First for Friday, October 4, 2013

Protecting student athletes You only have to look at the $765-million NFL concussion settlement to know that this is a bi ...

Air Date: October 4, 2013

Shapiro on Theater

Review: Barbara Cook and the rebirth of a cabaret

When the celebrated performer Barbara Cook sang her first notes Wednesday night at the revitalized Prince Music Theater, she wasn’t ...

13 years ago

 From the left, Scott Greer, Rachel Camp, Sarah Gliko, Alex Keiper and Caroline Dooner of the ensemble in Arden Theatre Company's production of Parade. Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin.
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Parade’ passes by, then and now and all at once

The Arden Theatre Company’s stage bursts with talent in its meticulously delivered production of “Parade,” but the pers ...

13 years ago

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 The present-day Temple University campus, by daylight, is not nearly as frightening as it was one night 21 years ago for Billy Smith. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

When you know that the boy with a gun doesn’t really want to shoot you

Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts Podcast. In this edition, a Temple grad and Philadel ...

13 years ago

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 Charles A. Lindbergh is shown in this 1927 file photo with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, with which he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from west to east, the same year. (AP Photo, file)

In new book, Bill Bryson revisits marvelous and mundane summer of 1927

The summer of 2013 has come and gone, but Bill Bryson wants to tell you about the summer of 1927. “It was the most magical a ...

13 years ago

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 Ryan Ward in
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Review: ‘Evil Dead — the Musical.’ Deadly? Or just evil?

Take cold comfort in the fact that “Evil Dead – the Musical” – a piece of juvenile, B-grade Grizzly Kitsch playing here i ...

13 years ago

Pirates return to playoffs after two decade absence

The Pittsburgh Pirates make their triumphant return to the playoffs this evening in a play-in game against the Cincinnati Reds, and many ...

13 years ago

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 Listening for the perfect sound are Sid McLauchlan, the recording's producer (left); Loren Lind, flute; and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, The Philadelphia Orchestra's music director (Image courtesy of Jessica Griffin)

Fabulous Philadelphians release studio CD

The Philadelphia Orchestra is releasing a studio CD. While the orchestra has released many recordings over the past few decades, all were ...

13 years ago

With Ellen Tiberino at center, African American Museum exhibit focuses on family circle

For Joe Tiberino, the new exhibition at the African American Museum in Ph ...

13 years ago

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